Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Treatment involves using a very messy ointment which marks the sheets . |
| 2 | Metals trader Ferromet Group has received a heavily qualified audit report from Touche Ross on its accounts for the year ended 31 December 1991 . |
| 3 | Prior ( property trading and the retailing and wholesaling of architectural ironmongery ) has received a seriously qualified audit report on its accounts for the year ended 31 March 1992 from joint auditors Wilson Wright & Co and Coopers & Lybrand . |
| 4 | Samaranch has received a fairly agreeable press since becoming IOC president in 1980 . |
| 5 | The crustacean , Gigantocypris , has developed a completely different design of mirror-eye . |
| 6 | The work of the CLE to date has concentrated mainly on the problems of unemployment and inflation , and the CLE has developed a widely accepted framework for looking at those subjects . |
| 7 | This is why Braun has developed a highly advanced health appliance to remove plaque effectively and easily . |
| 8 | Glasgow has developed a very fruitful relationship with one of the world 's most gifted directors . |
| 9 | Glasgow has developed a very fruitful relationship with one of the world 's most gifted directors . |
| 10 | Prince Charles , on the other hand , has developed an apparently informal style , easy , genuinely popular , with a nice line in self-deprecating jokes . |
| 11 | From this has developed an extremely high quality culture service , without which , as will be seen in the chapter on gonorrhoea , it is difficult to cope adequately with the disease , particularly in women . |
| 12 | Every year a bank statement informs us that the Trust has lopped a mildly painful number of pounds from our far from princely pensions and every year we wonder whether we should continue to belong or not . |
| 13 | This point is also being registered in relation to sexism in schools ( Wolpe , 1989 ) and has provoked a more general rethinking of educational processes in which poststructuralist theorizing is beginning to exercise a belated , but in my view welcome , influence ( Walkerdine , 1991 ) . |
| 14 | The case of the Vietnamese refugees has highlighted a very broad problem , but within it , of course , there are number of differences and have been particularly involved in the question of people from universities and institutes in the Third World are uprooted and whose work is interrupted by political upheaval . |
| 15 | The Australian Institute has joined an increasingly aggressive campaign against President Keating 's ‘ ridiculous ’ plans to tax employee parking spaces . |
| 16 | In some respects , however , Herculaneum is even better-preserved than Pompeii , although it did not escape the attentions of the treasure seekers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and it has furnished an even greater wealth of detail than Pompeii on the day-to-day life of a flourishing Roman town . |
| 17 | No one has given a completely convincing explanation of what Mazzocchi may have meant by ‘ mezz'Arie ’ . |
| 18 | Region 's image is First Class NORTHUMBRIA Tourist Board , which wants to promote a more upmarket image for the region , has adopted a new logo carrying the slogan First Class . |
| 19 | To a few of us it may seem like only yesterday , but to the Princess , I suspect , it has been a long decade , for she has completed a most extraordinary metamorphosis . |
| 20 | The reason for this can be traced historically to the fact that research on creativity in academic psychology has formed a quite separate strand of enquiry from that originating in the early pathographic analyses carried out by medical writers . |
| 21 | Moreover the hitherto unstoppable rise in property value has formed an apparently solid base for the credit spiral which so bedevils government economic policy . |
| 22 | In order to prevent a drain of young English cricketers to South Africa during the winter , the TCCB has to provide a suitably well-rewarded alternative and it is in this area that Subba Row 's successor will need to shine . |
| 23 | DOCOMOMO is the euphoniously named international working party for the DOcumentation and COnservation of buildings , sites and neighbourhoods of the MOdern MOvement , which held its first conference in Eindhoven last month and has attracted an astonishingly strong ground swell of support . |
| 24 | First , though , one has to obtain a very thin section of the rock , thin enough to be translucent . |
| 25 | Nor are any reservations about Hawking 's work itself : on this score , Soul is more incisive than Errol Morris ' movie , in which the director has substituted a somewhat bemused deference for the confident spirit of critical inquiry that animated its forerunner , The Thin Blue Line . |
| 26 | With IBM UK Ltd taking away its RS/6000s and PS/2s and Digital Equipment UK Ltd ready to end its agreement with ICL Plc 's Technology Plc personal computer and workstation distribution acquisition , there has been much frenzied speculation that Sun Microsystems Inc and Compaq Computer Corp are ready to withdraw their products too , and that ICL has dropped a very big brick on its foot in buying the company . |
| 27 | She has just started at Luton Sixth Form College , in Bedfordshire , but she has picked a more varied menu than the traditional sixth form diet of three A-levels . |
| 28 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 29 | It is not always easy to use their own in-house people if the chairman or chief executive wants to find a very senior director : then they nearly always go to outside professional advisers for confidentiality , for objectivity and often because the senior headhunters in the major firms are the best , of the highest quality and are paid accordingly . |
| 30 | Not to be confused with Pergolesi 's catalytic opera of the same name ( the one reputed to have sparked off the operatic ‘ Guerre des Bouffons ’ in Paris ) , Paisiello 's La Serva padrona ( ‘ The Servant Mistress ’ ) has enjoyed a less exalted fate . |